Maybe completed this in April, but lately I've had this thing about uploading stuff to the internet. I just want to hide it all under my bed and go draw something better. I haven't really made a giant painting like this for a really long time, I've just been making a lot of little paintings. So I'm kind of nervous I guess, even though I like it.

Inspired by a really amazing (shocking, even) childhood memory of lightening. Many people grow up in places where lightening is common, but I did not ever see it until I was 5 or 6 and visiting Oklahoma. X3 (I came from Alaska, where there was rarely lightening.)

My first memory of lightening is very vivid. Oklahoma was so wide and flat (I had never seen flat before, either), made of gold grass and warm dirt under a dusty blue sky... for days that was all it looked like. And then everything turned purple. Flat land in shadow with a thin line of turquoise beneath towering thunderheads. Then suddenly, lightening. ^^

Haha! I live in Oklahoma,where I live the sky is this bright whitish blue,at night it turns orange red,and during storms it turns this midnight blue-purple color that is broken with strikes of white.^^ Oklahoma has completely random weather( heat one day, rain the next, heat again, then snow kinda thing) but it is quite beautiful!!

Ahhh!! It is so cute!! Your colors and style are ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!! I bought post cards from you at A-KON 23 and I put them all in a frame. I wish I had gotten you to sign them!! ;-; but thank you SO MUCH for coming to A-KON! I am now a big fan!

Your pictures all seem to have these nifty little stories behind them - I think it's really cool to see where the inspiration for something like this comes from! Very nice picture too, love the contrasting colours and his massive ears x3

I've lived in Oklahoma for about 11 years now, and the weather never looks quite that awesome. Tornadic-clouds always just look like big angry black-ish pillars among a green or orange tinted sky to me. Where I moved from in north-western Montana didn't have the tornadoes or chocking humidity, but we had a wider range of weather. Folks here complain if temps go up more than 20 degrees in one day, freak out as soon as enough snow falls to actually show a thin layer on the ground, and kids don't go out for recess if it is raining or snowing, or is below 60 degrees! In MT we went out in ALL weather, from -17 to +102 degrees (the coldest and warmest days I remember being outside at school)...that is more than a 100 degree difference!! We didn't have snow-days, our buses were equipped with snow-plows and tire-chains when they came to get us if it was more than 2 and a half feet deep...